6 thoughts on “Podcast: John Vucetich on Michigan’s wolf hunt, which begins today”

Rich, there are already a lot of moose on Isle Royale, enough that they should have a cull and donate the meat to food pantries. A rather inconvenient truth for the wolf apologists is that northern Minnesota’s moose crash is blamed on climate change while Isle Royale’s moose are prospering since wolves crashed. Hmmm …. Joanne, don’t believe everything you see on PBS. Wolves will take on new mates, and assume new packs. Wisconsin has killed more than 400 wolves past two years through legal hunt/trapping and federal depredation trapping. There are still far more wolves than the most recent winter numbers because they’ve been seriously underestimated for so many years. The deer and small game that wolves eat are game animals that attract paying customers (hunters) to northern Wisconsin communities. The positive economic impact of hunting is more than $1 billion in Wisconsin. Those are real dollars in a tough economic time. Wolves need to be reduced toward population goals. Forty-three in Michigan? Won’t even be a drop in the bucket, not enough to even impact annual recruitment of pups. It’s about time states stood up to the rabid anti-hunt groups like HSUS and do what’s right for the resources and economy.

No one is talking about the moose.
Has anyone seen a moose in Luce county this year?
No… they haven’t. The wolves have wiped out the moose population there… and I would imagine, around the rest of the U.P. as well. There are too many wolves. Just ask the locals. And guess what… now that the moose are gone… the deer are next. Then the live stock. Then pets.
Hunting is a way to help get the balance back. The moose and deer have not had to deal with wolves in 40 years… they don’t know how to survive with them here. Eventually, there will be more of a natural balance. But right now… we need to step in and help nature get back in sync. We screwed up the ecosystem… we need to step in and help right the ship.